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FBI

RECORD SERIES: MX.
AGENCY FILE NUMBER:  105-3702-464

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FBI
TRENT, ROLAND E.
LEG, MX

03/13/1964

4 .
LHO, POST-RP, ASSOC, BKG, LIAISON WITH MX AUTHORITIES

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT
NEW

Secret —— .

CLASSIFICATION:
12/17/1998 UPDATE DATE: — 02/14/2001
Redact

RESTRICTIONS:
JFK Act 6 (1)(B)

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ION ‘ we-108-08 aN . |

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Memorandum |

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TO > Legat, Mexico (105=3702)

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. SUBJECT? LER HARVEY, OSWALD | i Se, Sony op
-° TSeR=Cubs ~~ ‘4

~ Ret Pirecarion os ef PEDRO GUTTRRREZ a ne

on B3e13S 6h.s: MARGARITA: MINGUIA, "Vasa Section, Ve Se, ‘Hmbaasy,-
“exico,sDeFsy made ‘available. wisa- Pile data concerning ERNESTO.

MITRANT LEVY, holder of*Cuban passport Noe 26367, issued in n Decembers
1959, with: éxpiration date in 1961. Qf

‘FROM = % SA Roland z. Trent

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‘Addresses for’ this individual. were’ given as igual Aleman
#259, Apartment #301, MEXXEK Colonia Roma; Mexi egy « DeFos . and |”
Callé Arellano Esqhina "ce", #269, Havana, Cuba s ye _

_MITRANIts date of birth is shown as. December * %,- 1936, at otal
3 Havana, Cuba, and he. is further described as ‘fair. complexion, ~~ ae
r St o7its: 176 Tbs.3 Cuban national, no scars of marks, ‘bréwn- hate”
ad and greén eyes, The visa file: data” eso shots ‘MITRANT. fo. be.

of Turkish. extraction. fh .

MITRANI secured a one éntry Be2 visa on 4027262 | valid: ‘heough

Ne27=61, for the, alleged purpose of a pleasure trip: to! hos Angeles,
California.

The visa fiYe card contains a photograph of ERNESTO MUTRANT
and this card indicated his et erenen as of \January, ‘1961, ag
a merchant and manufacturer of plastics vy

The application made by MITRANI as the U.Se Tmbas sy ,"- Mexico, D.F
in Janusry, tga was for a non=inmigrant visa to visit the US.

RET

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The foliowing information is classified" SECRET and not
to be fugiher disseminated yithouk specific authority of
the CIA,J Mexico City Station} K - .

As of 7-6=61 oné Ey, MITRANT was working in the Cuban
Consulate, Mexico, D.l.;fand had reportedly offered to cooperate
with anti-Castro persons in Mexico, D.F 2)

The E, MITRANI, mentioned above was subsequently identified
as ERNESTO MITRANT ($Y) _— ;

ERNESTO MITRANI aka E, Mitrani, mentioned above, was subsequently

identified as ERNESTO MITRANT LEVY, who in about December, 1959

Was employed an "Auxiliary Consular Clerk" in the Cuban Embassy,
Mexico, Dele [Paso MITRANI LEVY had reportedly been. helpful
to anti-CASTRO forces in Mexico. Jose AN Temlo- PerTuon ZO _

. , On October 2),,°1960, MITRANI received a telegram recalling

him to Havana, Cubag however, he did nbb want to return to Cuba,

and reportedly, went to the then Ambassador PORTUYONBO, and

explained that he planned on marrying a Mexican girl; that

his father had offerred him employment in Mexico, and for these

reasons he did. not want to return to Cubae PORTUVONDO reportedly

gounseled AREXEH MITRANI to write to the Cuban Foreign Cffice in ;
avana and explain his problem, which km MITRANI reportedly did.

At that time MITRANT was the holder of Cuban Diplomatic passport

Noe 480 and also held a regular passport. - be)

MITRANT, reportedly had arrived in Mexico on December 15, 1959;
he was a bagchelor at the time of his arrival, and his father - ~
was reportedly engaged in business in Mexico. His residence
in about 1960 was given as residing at the corner of Avenida
“nsurgentes Sur and Wiaducto Miguel Aleman, Mexico, D.F. ,
telephone Nog-J]=-96—11, The telephone and address data was as

nf 10=2)),—60 iA)

: MITRANI was reportedly in contact with the USIA, U.S. Embassyy
Mexico, Defey in 1960 in reward to his desire to remain in Mexico,
{Gnd MITRANT was reportedly told that a visa toenter the U.S. wovld

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MITRANI v eportedly never publically denounced the Cuban regime
although CIA file data reflects that someone wrote to the Cuban ,
Embassy in 1960 stating thgt MITRANI was a "spy" and cooperating
with anti-CASTRO forces )

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MITRANT reportedly acting as a "cut-out" sppplied one report
to the CIA, Mexico City station m which was submitted on or about

Ba13-627S)

The CTA,piiexico,Cit tatiod 0 no data on file concerning
MITRANI since 8=13-62, (% .

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mdbove CiA data secured from DAVID PHILUTPS. Wy “SECREL

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be arranged for him if he would publically denounce the Cuban reein
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v ./ MC File review concerning ERNESTO MITRANI revealed the following: fe

” (paris 1058908.) fentitied @ ‘COMMUNIST "PENETRATION

DIPLOMATIC ESTABL HMENTS 5] FOREIGN POLITICAL MATTERS » CUBA"
contains letterhead memorandum dated 10-2).—60 »fhich

indicates that ERNESTO MITRANI LEVI was then a Assis tapt “
Consul, Cuban Embassy, Mexico, DF ae

CIA, Mexico City Station ’§ ) “i

> File 10521713, Seu, 18, Pee 3, and Ser. 19,
UW OF CUBAN &Q

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4 MC File 109=70, Ser. 850, (BUfile 109=12~210)
enttiled "FOREIGN POLITICAL MATTERS »=CUBA", Report of SA JOSEPH
T, GENCO, 1l-12=61 at_ Mexico, D.*, contains information from
POL FELIX VALDES tM File 1361284 “Ehat (FNU) MITRANI, an
assistant in the Cuban Consulate, Mexico, D.eFe, was contemplating
defecting and. leaving his position. As of 1-S-61, according to the
/ (8 PST, MITRAN I” was reportedly still working at the Cuban Consulate

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